I have a NSV I'd love to share.
Six weeks ago I joined a challenge at a gym. I wrote about this a week ago here. The goal is to lose both weight and percent body fat. You get a score that's based on percent loss of both. So if you go from 200 lbs to 190 lbs, you've lost 5% of your body weight. If you go from 30% body fat to 27% body fat, you've lost 10% of your body fat. Your total score between both would be 7.5% "lost" on average. Whoever does best on the average of both measures wins the whole thing. Moreover, you get your money back ($200--includes private training, gym access, etc) if you got an average of 10% loss across the weight and body fat measures.
I went into this already a month into this transformer (some weight loss had occurred) and in good muscle shape (I had been regularly going to the gym for months, with weight lifting.) So I wasn't starting from nothing. My goal was to get my money back, which was a "reach" goal.
I weighed out today and I made it to earning my money back! I got just under 6% of total weight loss (so a lot of the 10% needed for this 6 month challenge!) and I got almost 15% body fat % loss (as a reminder, that doesn't mean 30->15, which is impossible in 6 weeks; for me it was about 27->23).
We won't know the final result of who won the whole thing for a few days, and I expect it was NOT me for some of the reasons stated, and I'm not that hardcore. But I'm amazed I got to win my money back and make the progress I did.
